In honour of the first successful test the Large Hadron Collider, Wired has compiled a smart little playlist to help you through any LHC-related global destruction: Huge props for the inclusion of Bad Religion, Nunc Scio’s all-time, number one favourite band. I think you’ll find their music is appropriate to almost any occasion…weddings, funerals, bar mitvahs, [...]
A new trailer for the upcoming Bond flick, “A Quantum of Solace” is now circulating the interwebs: Nice. A bit slower and more brooding than the first trailer, but it shows off a lot more of the action bits. Which, by the way, look amazing. Although they’re really scuffing the hell out of that Aston [...]
Last night, scientists at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) flipped the switch, sending a super-fast stream of protons around the sprawling 27KM particle accelerator. Research done at the LHC is supposed to reveal all kinds of interesting things, like the origin of all matter in the universe. It has also been widely speculated that the [...]
Of course, by “Week 6″ I mean “Week 5, repeated”. In my defense, I did week five over at a higher level, so its really more of week 5 1/2. Oddly enough, push ups have slowly intergrated themselves into my weekly routine. I now take as a given that, three or four times a week, [...]
The global economic woes aren’t just putting people out of work and putting bankers into apoplexy. Magical creatures are also feeling the pinch. A new British survey reveals that the average amount left for newly-toothless children in the UK by the Tooth Fairy fell from about $2.28 to $1.63 over the past six months. More shocking, 38 [...]
Republicans may be a lot of things- politically shrewd, powerful, evil- but one thing they are certainly not is rock n’ roll. So much so, venerated rock acts recoil from them like a rabbit from an electric fence. A few days ago, I reported than Van Halen had sent a ‘cease and desist’ order to John [...]
Awesome: sitting on a patio, next to a bump on the sidewalk. Extra awesome: watching everyone trip on it. Extra super awesome: watching Danny Glover, in town for the film festival, trip on it. I love TIFF.